Konrad Grisbaum

Konrad Grisbaum (10 June 1899-14 October 1943) was Nazi Germany's Gauleiter of Chervonohrad, Ukraine, during World War II.

Biography
Konrad Grisbaum was born in Posen in the German Empire (present-day Poznan, Poland). Grisbaum's father was of German descent and his mother was of Rusyn descent. Grisbaum served in the Reichswehr during World War I in the war with the Russian Empire, and gained the Iron Cross First Class during the 1914 Battle of Gumbinnen. Grisbaum was promoted to Lieutenant by the end of the war, reaching the rank at the age of only 19 in 1918. Grisbaum left the military and became a lawyer in the Interwar Years, working for Poland. In 1933 he headed to Nazi Germany after he developed anti-Semitic and anti-Polish views due to Nazi propaganda, and Grisbaum was made the Gauleiter of Chervonohrad in Ukraine in 1941 after it was conquered from the Soviet Union during World War II in Operation Barbarossa. Grisbaum persecuted Jews and Russians for their ethnicities and also hung Soviet partisans. On 14 October 1943 he was killed in a violent attack on the police station by Ukrainian insurgents.